The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 38

Then the gardener came with his gun over his shoulder, and he heard something rustling in the pea bed.

Who acts: gardener · What happens: come, hear, rustle · To what, where: something, pea bed

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 gun	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gun	nmod:poss
7	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 shoulder	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoulder	nmod:poss
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gun	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 heard	obj
16	rustling	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 something	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 bed	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bed	det
19	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bed	compound
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rustling	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the gardener			then	with gardener's gun over gardener's shoulder	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	gardener	something				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	rustle	gerund			the pea bed			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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